volant

From horror films to tabloid pages to Halloween, media and cultural depictions of our planet’s only volant, or flying, mammals have long generated and reinforced unfounded fear.

And being not only large but also volant might have been particularly costly, because big fliers tend to rely on soaring flight for much of their travel.

A preliminary report on an omnivorous volant bird from northeast China.

All my early interests revived; worldly propositions I had thought settled showed themselves unstable and volant; everything was shaken by the moving spirit of youth.

“His volant touch, Instinct through all proportions, low and high, Fled and pursued transverse the resonant fugue.”